John Trapp on Philippians 4:12

Verſe 12. I know both how, &c.] Sound bodies can bear ſudden alterations of heat and cold: So cannot diſtempered bodies.

Both how to be abaſed] So Chilo (one of the ſeven Wiſemen of Greece) [non-Latin text not transcribed]. L[illegible: 1 letter]ert. ſaid to his brother who took it ill that he was not choſen to be one of the Judges, I know how to be injuriouſly dealt with: but I hardly believe him. Socrates alſo could tell Archelaus, Arrian, apud Stob[illegible: 1 letter]um. that offered him large revenues, My minde and mine eſtate are matches. But fleſh and bloud could never carry him ſo far, for all his ſaying ſo. It is God alone that faſhioneth a mans heart to his eſtate, Pſal. 33.15. as a ſuit of clothes is fitted to the body.

I am instructed] [non-Latin text not transcribed]. I am initiated, I am a young ſchollar, newly entered in this high point of heavenly learning.

To ſuffer want] Either patiently to wait for what I deſire, or contentedly to want what God denieth.